DVD & Blu-rays Released June 21, 2005

Tuesday, June 21

Hostage R

Bruce Willis stars as an LAPD hostage negotiator, who withdraws to the countryside to become chief of a two-man police department after a bloody standoff. Instead of achieving a sense of peace in the small town, he finds himself embroiled in negotiations to save his wife and daughter. Messner will play an FBI operative who comes onto the crime scene to work with Willis' character and retrieve computer disks.
Rumer Willis, Florent Siri, Richard D Zanuck, Bruce Willis, Arnold Rifkin, Bob Yari, Mark Gordon, Robert Crais
Drama Action Adventure Thriller Crime Gangster
115 mins

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous PG-13

The story catches up with FBI agent Gracie Hart (Sandra Bullock) shortly after she successfully disarmed a threat against the Miss United States Pageant while working undercover as a contestant in Miss Congeniality. Having become a media celebrity following her heroic pageant exploits, Gracie has been spending more time lately at the salon than the shooting range, working the talk show circuit and promoting her book. When her friends, pageant winner Cheryl and emcee Stan, are kidnapped in Las Vegas, Gracie's all-out efforts to jump back into action to save them puts her at loggerheads with the FBI top brass who don't want to risk losing their mascot and fear she might not be up to the job anymore.
Regina King, Nick Offerman, John DiResta, Bruce Berman, John Pasquin, Marc Lawrence, Enrique Murciano, Diedrich Bader
Action Adventure Comedy Sequel Crime
81 mins

In the Realms of the Unreal

An innovative masterpiece that literally gives wings to one man's singular vision of an imaginary world. Henry Darger lived a reclusive life and died alone in a Catholic mission in 1973. For more than 60 years, he created a massive literary and graphic body of work, including The Realms of the Unreal, an epic, fifteen-thousand-page novel with hundreds of paintings that recounts the wars between nations on an enormous unnamed planet. Darger's keen sense of composition and vivid colors allowed him to create incredibly intense and beautiful illustrations which are often disturbingly violent. Consciously excluding art experts and psychologists, Yu presents impressions of Darger's work only from the people who knew him, letting the audience make up their own minds about the man. The film cleverly parallels his real life with his fantasies, making the oddness of his fantasy world more accessible.
Dakota Fanning, Susan West, Sue West, Jessica Yu, Henry Darger, Larry Pine
Documentary
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134 mins

Coach Carter PG-13

Inspired by true-life story of controversial high-school basketball coach Ken Carter, who received both high praise and staunch criticism when he made national news in 1999 for benching his entire undefeated basketball team for poor academic performance.
Samuel L. Jackson, Channing Tatum, Rob Brown, Thomas Carter, Michael Tollin, Brian Robbins, David Gale, Mark Schwahn
Drama Sports

Bigger Than the Sky PG-13

A successful community theatre company is turned upside down when the director of an upcoming production of "Cyrano" casts an inexperienced young man with no apparent talent in the lead. The young man, Peter Rooker (Marcus Thomas), soon becomes caught up in the various intrigues of the "theater people," including the charming but mercurial Michael (John Corbett), the beautiful leading lady Grace (Amy Smart), and a colorful cast of eccentric players (including Sean Astin, Patty Duke and Alan Corduner). Peter soon discovers that in the world of theater the normal rules do not apply–but in the end there is a role for everyone.
Sean Astin, John Corbett, Kenneth Jones, Al Corley, Rodney Patrick Vaccaro, Marcus Thomas, Amy Smart, Clare Higgins
Drama Comedy Romance

Cursed PG-13

It is a moonlit night in Los Angeles, when something lurking in the shadows causes their car to suddenly swerve off the road, a teenaged brother and his career-driven sister emerge relatively unscathed, but forever changed by the accident. Suddenly, the siblings find themselves blessed with increased physical strength, heightened sensibilities and undeniable allure to everyone around them. But, what if what happened to them that night wasn't just an accident and what seemed like fate was really something more? It is only a matter of time before Ellie (Christina Ricci) and Jimmy (Jesse Eisenberg) can no longer control these impulses because their newfound power comes with a price that they never expected to pay and a mystery that only they can solve.
Wes Craven, Robert Forster, Michael Rosenbaum, Kevin Williamson, Christina Ricci, Lance Bass, Shannon Elizabeth, Scott Foley
Thriller Suspense Horror

Tuesday, June 21